Shopping bag



E. D. STORY SHOPPING BAG Aug. 22, 1933.

Original Filed Oct. 5. 1929 Patented Aug.

f UNITED Application The invention relates groceries and other articles conveniently,

TES PATENT 1,924,006 SHOPPING'BAGV l Ela D. Story, 'Tyler,.'1cx. Y

October 3, 1929, Serial No. 397,115

Renewed-June 2, 1933 v 1 claim. (C1. 15o-1.7)

to bags for carrying and has for its object the provision vof an improved bag of the character struction to be adapted for ca and in which provision is the stated that is strong in conrrying heavyl loads,

made for distributing lift'on the hand-holds over the sides ofthe bag and remote from the hand-holds toprehand-holds in lifting 'vent tearing out at the y heavy loads in the bag.

A'further .object of the invention is the proi vision of a bag in which `secured together by seams vide superposed layers the bag, and in which of the bag at the open en forming the .b the material of the sides d thereof are folded the two sides that are are overlapped to proinwardly and secured to the respective the bag and provided with means forming and providing reinforcing strips secured holds,

ottom of sides of handto the folded portion atkthe contiguous side of the bag that are crossed strips providing reinforcemen over the openings, said ts for the handhelds and serving to distribute the lift from the hand holds to parts remote therefrom.

The invention will be described in de will be found illustrated in the acdrawing in which levation of the imn inafter andcompanyng 'Figure 1 is a side view in e roved shopping bag,

indicated by the line 1n theV drawing similar used to designate correspondingpart out theV several views.

tail heresectional view on a 24-2 of Figure l,

sectional view on a -3 of Figure 2, e sectional view on a 4-4 of Figure 1, and

As shown in the drawing the bag is formed of two pieces of material, designa said material being c suitable material, and is joined in tubular form- 3 preferably by two rows of stitching 4. The material of the sides 1 and 2, is overlapped to form the bo spectively,

by overlapped seams as shown at 5 and 6,

ted'l and 2, re-

anvas or other ttom of the bag the lap 5 being a continuation of the side 1 and has an upwardly extended portion 5' secured on the to the side 2, while the la of the side 2 and has an upwa tion 6a secured to the ou rLap 5 is also wardly extended aps or provided wi inner side of the bagl p 6 is a continuation rdly extended porter side of the side 1.

extensions 5b,

th inwardly and upand lap 6 with flaps or extensions 6b that are secured to the sides 1 and 2 to reinforce the bottom of the bag at the seams 3', making a very strong able it to be used for carrying Before closing the seams bag, the material of" th inwardly as shown at 7 and 8, respectively,

this structure, obviously, bottom for the bag to enheavy loads. 3 e sides 1 and 2 is folded the corners of the folded portion being again folded under the folds '7 and 8 as shown at '1a ,and si,

respectively. The folded `portions 7 and 8f and the sides 1 and 2 areprovided with openings 9 v and 10, the material cut out by the formation of the openings in the folded portions 7 and 8 being folded around the edges yof the upper parts of the openings 9 and 10 and secured by means of stitching through the underlying portion to provide hand-holds, the folded portions being designated 1l and 12, respectively. To reinforce the hand-holds, previous folding the portions 7 and 8 inwardly, as heretofore described, strips of canvas or other material are secured to the material of the sides l and 2 in crossed relation so that the crossed portions of the strips are ardesignated 13 and 14 sides of the bag, stitching securing said l ranged above the hand-holds, said strips being respectively for the two 15 and 16 designating rows of strips to the material of the bag. By theprovision of these strips and the arrangement of them relatively to the handat the top of the f holds, and the securing of the strips to the bag in the manner stated, when a lift is made on it will be apparent that the hand-holds lland 12,

that the lift will be distributed by means of the v strips to the remote por tions of the sides 1 and 2 at the two sides of the hand-holds, and furthermore lthat thestrips will serve to reinforce and strengthen the ther reinforce the upper bag at the hand-holds.

To furportion of the bag at the hand-holds, a filler strip 17 is provided on each side of the bag wit formed by folding hin the crease of the fold the portions '7 and 8 inwardly,

and saidller strips extend to the secured edges of the material of the sides where joined'by the seams 3, and are secured in the seams, as shown in Figure 4, this structure also strengthening the upper portion of the In using the bag for c apparent that if vthe bag at the hand-holds.

arrying articles, it will be contents ofthe bag permits that the exibility of the bag will allowV the top of the bag to be collapsed so that the two sides may be brought together and the bag carried by grasping ythe two vhand In event the material not permit collapsing,

-holds by a single hand. carried bythe bag` will it will be apparent that the bag may be carried by inserting a rod through the hand-holds to permit carrying by two persons if so desired or by a single person, or the bag may be carried by grasping a single handhold.. It will be apparent, however, that because of the reinforcement of the hand-holds in the manner hereinbefore described that the bag is capable'of'carrying a heavy load without endangering tearing out at the handehlds because of the burden borne.

What is claimed isz- A shopping bag, comprising a body portion cnsisting of pieces of material providing `the sides of the bag and secured together by stitching through overlapped edges of said pieces, Vthe pieces of material at the topvor mouth of the Y 

